Opinion: Columbia Hires Ex-Con Professor

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... back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... in your post broke news today that Chloe University named a radical weather underground member ... as a quote scholar in residence ... at Kathy bluejeans served as the getaway driver in a place that led to the debt ... of two policeman ... in the Brink's cart ... my Wall Street Journal editorial page colleagues door of our Mari is here so I'm ... why would come on the universe the give a platform to something like this effects the Columbian and when you at Columbia she's a an adjunct professor in the social or school ... at NYU law school she's a scholar in residence shaping impressionable minds on what ... on on the Oprah role in re entry issues ... now on the species that experience with that but of all the people in world ... confined ... to speak and you know ... it on the issue of ... know what women face coming out of of role in re entry ... Columbia and in line you have to find ... a former U noe far left extremists to you know as has been convicted for them and the death of three in three people that they can find a psychiatrist or someone like me can call it wouldn't give a platform to a right wing extremists and we win ... into worse than right ... um so what is about the cloture on campus that makes this okay ... well I mean the the idea is you just said they would never if true is that you know of someone attempting to contain it exactly that ecclesial like that was given for all ... he would never bring a man and for good reason because you know extremists and terrorists on ... the money it doesn't mean we can learn from their experiences or we can learn about the eleven ran up Letterman of Oakland or any number of things but we wouldn't bring him into the classroom and given that and that the procedure the school I think the Koch or ... treats people that are on the left and their extremist at ... all it was the sixties and seventies these kids were basically well intentioned ... the system was terrible back then ... ensure they went in up too far every once in a lot like this case but ... you know they're basically they're basically on the side of that good and adjusting just so happens that ... you know that they went too far but ... that we can forgive them in a way that they would never forgive ... right wing extremists and I think for good reason Dell our colleges in your post its and our kitchen comments from some of this in the victims' families I guess if they were in a book then ... I they would have to be subject to the whims of the marketplace worst one yet can just give them a salary were on pace to go to the weather underground because ... this was a very radical group ... on whose numbers have been in for a state of our universities to attract bright so silly though the weather underground was a ... more violence ... you know terrorists take offshoot of the Ku Ven antiwar group called ... students for a democratic society ... no open the as ... the avowed Marxist ... who would turn to violence ... and and and and Bernini door was another door was another ... prominent member ... also um you know having haven't been ... convicted ... of crimes that is now head of Norfolk Northwestern law school ... bill is famously ... University said he's in he's also I love you gotta lot of attention surrounding his links to President Obama ... really barely mentioned in all back in and the mainstream press center in the campaign are both campaigns ... ALM so ... I guess o'clock in the stitches gotten the message that this is fine or ... may be Connie we've done this anyway ... and given their their tendency is former farmer violent left wing is a gentle and forgiving and culture the minute it's really is ... the lesson I think the Fed will have to leave it that a disgraceful episode on the uber see ... I